Online signature authentication system and method based on soft dynamic time warping

ABSTRACT

An online signature authentication system and an online signature authentication method based on soft dynamic time warping are provided, the system includes a data acquisition module, a data preprocessing module, a signature sequence feature extraction neural network module and a signature sequence feature testing module; the method includes: acquiring the signature sequence to be tested; preprocessing the signature sequence, acquiring the preprocessed data and extracting the time functions of the signature sequence; constructing the neural network and training the neural network based on the time functions of the signature sequence to obtain the signature sequence feature extraction neural network; and based on the preprocessed data and through the signature sequence feature extraction neural network, judging the authenticity by calculating the dynamic time warping distance between the signature sequence features.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202210582665.2, filed on May 26, 2022, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The application belongs to a technical field of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence, and in particular to an online signature authentication system and a method based on soft dynamic time warping.

BACKGROUND

Signature authentication is an important identity authentication technology, and its verification object is a signature of the writer or the abbreviation of the signature, which have a strong personal style because of frequent use. Compared with features such as faces, iris, fingerprints and voiceprints, handwritten signatures may be collected in a non-invasive and more user-friendly way, so the signature authentication has been widely used in business activities, banking services, security authentication and other scenarios. With widespread electronic devices in the information age, a technology of an online handwritten signature authentication has been widely developed, and the acquisition media have evolved from original special equipment for office scenarios to the current mobile terminals such as smart phones and electronic tablets. In these scenarios, the writer may flexibly choose to input with a stylus or with fingers. However, the online handwritten signature has a small number of samples, presents great intra-class differences in cross-time and cross-device scenarios, and are vulnerable to counterfeit signature attacks, thus bringing great challenges to the online signature authentication.

With the development of deep learning, an automatic signature authentication method based on big data and deep neural network gradually plays an important role, especially when combined with the classical dynamic time warping algorithm, the method can achieve more advanced results, indicating that dynamic time warping is very crucial for the online signature authentication. However, the conventional dynamic time warping algorithm is non-differentiable for the input, which results in failure of end-to-end trainings of the neural network.

SUMMARY

The application provides an online signature authentication system and an online signature authentication method based on soft dynamic time warping. A neural network is constructed through a data normalization and a resampling processing, and the network is trained through a loss function based on a soft dynamic time warping distance, so as to extract characteristics of the signature to be authenticated and calculate a dynamic time warping distance to judge an authenticity.

In order to achieve above purposes, the application provides following schemes:

-   -   an online signature authentication system based on soft dynamic         time warping includes     -   a data acquisition module, a data preprocessing module, a         signature sequence feature extraction neural network module and         a signature sequence feature testing module.

The data acquisition module is used for acquiring a signature sequence to be tested;

-   -   the data preprocessing module is used for preprocessing the         signature sequence, acquiring preprocessed data and extracting         time functions of the signature sequence;     -   the signature sequence feature extraction neural network module         is used for constructing a neural network and training the         neural network based on the time functions of the signature         sequence to obtain a signature sequence feature extraction         neural network; and     -   a signature sequence feature verification model is used for         judging an authenticity by calculating a dynamic time warping         distance between features of the signature sequence based on the         preprocessed data and through the signature sequence feature         extraction neural network.

Optionally, the time functions of the signature sequence in the data preprocessing module include: an horizontal speed v_(x) and a vertical speed v_(y), an angle θ and functions cos(θ) and sin(θ) thereof, a pressure p, a first difference {dot over (v)} of a speed v and a first difference {dot over (θ)} of the angle θ, a logarithmic curvature radius ρ, a centripetal acceleration c and a total acceleration α.

Optionally, the neural network in the signature sequence feature extraction neural network module consists of one-dimensional convolution layers, circulation layers and a fully connected layer; a rectified linear unit (ReLU) activation function is used after each convolution layer, and a maximum pooling layer is inserted between the convolution layers.

Optionally, the circulation layer in the signature sequence feature extraction neural network module is composed of gated autoregressive units,

-   -   an input at a time point t is i_(t) and an output is o_(t), and         the gated autoregressive units update their outputs as follows:

r _(t)=sigmoid(W _(r) ×i _(t) +U _(r) ×o _(t−1) +b _(r))

o _(t)=tanh(W _(o) ×i _(t) +U _(o)×(r _(t) ⊙o _(t−1))+b _(o))

where r_(t) represents a reset gate, W_(r), U_(r), W_(o), and U_(o) are parameter matrix, b_(r) and b_(o) are bias terms, and the gated autoregressive units only adopt the reset gate r_(t).

Optionally, a method for training the neural network in the signature sequence feature extraction neural network module includes:

-   -   calculating a soft dynamic time warping distance of a signature         pair, and making X=[x₁, x₂, . . . , x_(l)]ϵ         ^(d×l) and Y=[y₁, y₂, . . . , y_(l)]ϵ         ^(d×m) as two signature sequences with a length l and a length m         respectively, x_(i) and y_(i) as local feature vectors of a         dimension d, and a loss matrix between column vectors of         sequences X and Y as Δ(X, Y)ϵ         ^(l×m), where [Δ(X, Y)]_(i,j)=∥x_(i)−y_(i)∥₂ ²;         _(l,m)⊂{0,1}^(l×m) is defined as a set of feasible binary         alignment matrices, Aϵ         _(l,m) is a binary alignment matrix, which satisfies a boundary         condition [A]_(1×1)=[A]_(l×m)=1 and is monotonic and         incremental, and the soft dynamic time warping distance of the         signature sequence pair X and Y is:

dtw_(γ)(X, Y)=min^(γ){

A, Δ(X, Y)

, Aϵ

_(l,m)}

where

A, Δ(X, Y)

represents an inner product of A and Δ(X, Y), min^(γ) is a generalized operator min with smoothing parameters defined as follows:

${\min^{\gamma}a_{1}},\ldots,{a_{n} = \left\{ \begin{matrix} {\min_{{i = 1},\ldots,n}a_{i}} \\ {{- \gamma}\log{\sum}_{i = 1}^{n}e^{{- a_{i}}/\gamma}} \end{matrix} \right.}$

Assuming the neural network as a function ƒ(·), for the signature sequence pair X and Y, a following distance based on the soft dynamic time warping is used in a training stage:

${d_{train}\left( {X,Y} \right)} = \frac{{dtw}_{\gamma}\left( {{f(X)},{f(Y)}} \right)}{{❘{f(X)}❘} + {❘{f(Y)}❘}}$

-   -   where |·| represents a length of the signature sequence,     -   the soft dynamic time warping distance of the signature pair is         integrated into a triplet loss function, and the neural network         is trained based on the triplet loss function.

Optionally, in the signature sequence feature verification model, a method for calculating the dynamic time warping distance between the signature sequence features to judge the authenticity includes:

-   -   extracting features based on the preprocessed data and the         obtained neural network,     -   calculating the distance between signature sequence features         based on the dynamic time warping;

${d_{test}\left( {X,Y} \right)} = \frac{{dtw}\left( {{f(X)},{f(Y)}} \right)}{{❘{f(X)}❘} + {❘{f(Y)}❘}}$

-   -   where dtw(X, Y) is the dynamic time warping distance between two         sequences calculated as follows:

${{dt{w\left( {X,Y} \right)}} = {\underset{A\epsilon\mathcal{A}_{l,m}}{\min}\left\langle {A,{\Delta\left( {X,Y} \right)}} \right\rangle}};$

and

-   -   comparing d_(test)(X, Y) with a preset threshold to obtain an         authentication result.

In order to better achieve the above technical effects, the application also provides an online signature authentication method based on soft dynamic time warping, which specifically includes the following steps:

-   -   acquiring the signature sequence to be tested;     -   preprocessing the signature sequence, acquiring the preprocessed         data and extracting the time functions of the signature         sequence;     -   constructing the neural network and training the neural network         based on the time functions of the signature sequence to obtain         the signature sequence feature extraction neural network;     -   judging the authenticity by calculating the dynamic time warping         distance between features of the signature sequence based on the         preprocessed data and through the signature sequence feature         extraction neural network.

Optionally, the time functions of the signature sequence include: the horizontal speed v_(x) and the vertical speed v_(y), the angle θ and functions cos(θ) and sin(θ) thereof, the pressure p, the first difference {dot over (v)} of the speed v and the first difference {dot over (θ)} of the angle θ, the logarithmic curvature radius ρ, the centripetal acceleration c and the total acceleration α.

Optionally, the neural network in the signature sequence feature extraction neural network module consists of the one-dimensional convolution layers, the circulation layers and the fully connected layer, the ReLU activation function is used after each convolution layer, and the maximum pooling layer is inserted between the convolution layers.

Optionally, the circulation layer in the signature sequence feature extraction neural network module is composed of gated autoregressive units, the specific mechanism is as follows,

-   -   the input at the time point t is i_(t) and the output is o_(t),         and the gated autoregressive units update their outputs as         follows:

r _(t)=sigmoid(W _(r) ×i _(t) +U _(r) ×o _(t−1) +b _(r))

o _(t)=tanh(W _(o) ×i _(t) +U _(o)×(r _(t) ⊙o _(t−1))+b _(o))

-   -   where r_(t) represents a reset gate, W_(r), U_(r), W_(o), and         U_(o) are parameter matrix, b_(r) and b_(o) are bias terms, and         the gated autoregressive units only adopt the reset gate r_(t),         and removes an update gate.

The application has following beneficial effects: the application discloses an online signature authentication system and an online signature authentication method based on soft dynamic time warping, and realizes a fusion of the neural network and a classical dynamic time warping algorithm by introducing a differentiable soft dynamic time warping algorithm, so that the neural network can carry out end-to-end trainings, thereby achieving a high-precision online signature authentication effect. The application has characteristics of high accuracy and strong generalization, and has higher application value.

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FIG. 1 is a schematic composition diagram of a system according to an embodiment of the application.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an online signature authentication example according to the embodiment of the application.

FIG. 3 is a schematic flow chart of a method according to the embodiment of the application.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

In the following, the technical scheme in the embodiment of the application will be clearly and completely described with reference to the drawings in the embodiment of the application. Obviously, the described embodiment is only a part of the embodiment of the application, but not the whole embodiment. Based on the embodiments in this application, all other embodiments obtained by ordinary technicians in this field without creative work belong to the protection scope of this application.

In order to make the above objects, features and advantages of this application more obvious and easier to understand, the application is further described in detail with the attached drawings and specific embodiments.

Embodiment 1

As shown in FIG. 1 , an online signature authentication system based on soft dynamic time warping specifically includes:

-   -   a data acquisition module, a data preprocessing module, a         signature sequence feature extraction neural network module and         a signature sequence feature testing module.

The data acquisition module is used for acquiring a signature sequence to be tested;

-   -   the data preprocessing module is used for preprocessing the         signature sequence, acquiring preprocessed data and extracting         time functions of the signature sequence;     -   the signature sequence feature extraction neural network module         is used for constructing a neural network and training the         neural network based on the time functions of the signature         sequence to obtain a signature sequence feature extraction         neural network; and     -   a signature sequence feature verification model is used for         judging an authenticity by calculating a dynamic time warping         distance between features of the signature sequence based on the         preprocessed data and through the signature sequence feature         extraction neural network;     -   the time functions of the signature sequence in the data         preprocessing module include: an horizontal speed v_(x) and a         vertical speed v_(y), an angle θ and functions cos(θ) and sin(θ)         thereof, a pressure p, a first difference {dot over (v)} of a         speed v and a first difference {dot over (θ)} of the angle θ, a         logarithmic curvature radius ρ, a centripetal acceleration c and         a total acceleration α.

In this embodiment, in order to better achieve the above technical effects, it specifically includes:

-   -   using smart phones, electronic handwriting tablets and other         devices as the data acquisition module to acquire the signature         sequence; and     -   then preprocessing the signature sequence by the data         preprocessing module. Specifically, preprocessing steps of the         data preprocessing module include:     -   step 2.1, taking a statistics median value in the original         coordinate as a center, carrying out a size normalization on the         signature sequence; and     -   step 2.2, resampling the signature sequence to 100 Hz.

The time functions are calculated in the preprocessed signature sequence, including the horizontal speed v_(x) and the vertical speed v_(y), the angle θ and functions cos(θ) and sin(θ) thereof, the pressure p, the first difference {dot over (v)} of the speed v and the first difference {dot over (θ)} of the angle θ, the logarithmic curvature radius ρ, the centripetal acceleration c and the total acceleration α.

v _(x) =x _(t+1) −x _(t)   (1)

v _(y) =y _(t+1) −y _(t)   (2)

v=√{square root over (v_(x) ² +v _(y) ²)}  (3)

θ=arctan(v _(y) /v _(x))   (4)

ρ=log(v/{dot over (θ)})   (5)

c=v·{dot over (θ)}  (6)

α=√{square root over ({dot over (v)} ² +c ²)}  (7)

-   -   where t is a sampling time point of a sampling point. The time         functions are normalized to a mean value of 0 and a variance of         1.

In this embodiment, steps of constructing a neural network for extracting signature sequence features in the signature sequence feature extraction neural network module include:

The time functions calculated in the step 3.1 are used as inputs of the neural network, the neural network consists of two one-dimensional convolution layers, two circulation layers and a fully connected layer. An ReLU activation function is used after each convolution layer, and a maximum pooling layer is inserted between the two convolution layers, and the signature sequence is downsampled twice. The specific network structure used is shown in Table 1:

TABLE 1 Number of layers Structure Configuration 1 convolution layer 64 channels, core size 7, step size 1, append edge 3 2 maximum pooling core size 2, step size 2 layer 3 convolution layer 128 channels, core size 3, step size 1, append edge 1 4 randomly dropping probability 0.1 5 circulation layer 128 gated autoregressive units 6 randomly dropping probability 0.1 7 circulation layer 128 gated autoregressive units 8 fully connected layer 64 channels

The circulating layer is composed of gated autoregressive units, and the specific mechanism is as follows: the input at time t is i_(t) and the output is o_(t), and the gated autoregressive units update their output as follows:

r _(t)=sigmoid(W _(r) ×i _(t) +U _(r) ×o _(t−1) +b _(r))   (8)

o _(t)=tanh(W _(o) ×i _(t) +U _(o)×(r _(t) ⊙o _(t−1))+b _(o))   (9)

-   -   where r_(t) represents a reset gate, W_(r), U_(r), W_(o), and         U_(o) are parameter matrix, b_(r) and b_(o) are bias terms, and         the gated autoregressive units only adopt the reset gate r_(t)         and remove the update gate.

Step 3.2, inputting the time functions of the signature into the network according to a sampling mode of a triple, integrating the soft dynamic time warping distance of the signature pair into a loss function of the triple, and training the neural network by optimizing the loss function, including following steps: step 3.2.1: calculating the soft dynamic time warping distance of the signature pair. Making X=[x₁, x₂, . . . , x_(l)]ϵ

^(d×l) and Y=[y₁, y₂, . . . , y_(l)]ϵ

^(d×m) as two signature sequences with a lengths l and m respectively, x_(i) and y_(i) as local feature vectors of a dimension d, and the loss matrix between the column vectors of sequences X and Y as Δ(X, Y)ϵ

^(l×m), where [Δ(X, Y)]_(i,j)=∥x_(i)−y_(i)∥₂ ²;

_(l,m)⊂{0,1}^(l×m) is defined as a set of feasible binary alignment matrices, Aϵ

_(l,m) is a binary alignment matrix, which satisfies a boundary condition [A]_(1×1)=[A]_(l×m)=1 and is monotonic and incremental, and the soft dynamic time warping distance of the signature sequence pair X and Y is:

dtw_(γ)(X, Y)=min^(γ){

A, Δ(X, Y)

, Aϵ

_(l,m)}  (10)

-   -   where         A, Δ(X, Y)         represents an inner product of A and Δ(X, Y), min^(γ) is a         generalized operator min with smoothing parameters, which is         defined as follows:

$\begin{matrix} {{\min^{\gamma}a_{1}},\ldots,{a_{n} = \left\{ \begin{matrix} {\min_{{i = 1},\ldots,n}a_{i}} \\ {{- \gamma}\log{\sum}_{i = 1}^{n}e^{{- a_{i}}/\gamma}} \end{matrix} \right.}} & (11) \end{matrix}$

-   -   assuming the neural network described in the step 3.1 in the         signature sequence feature extraction neural network module as a         function ƒ(·), and for the signature sequence pair X and Y, the         following distance based on the soft dynamic time warping is         used in the training stage:

$\begin{matrix} {{d_{train}\left( {X,Y} \right)} = \frac{{dtw}_{\gamma}\left( {{f(X)},{f(Y)}} \right)}{{❘{f(X)}❘} + {❘{f(Y)}❘}}} & (12) \end{matrix}$

-   -   where |·| represents the length of the signature sequence.

Step 3.2.2, the soft dynamic time warping distance of the signature pair is integrated into a triplet loss function. Assuming that each data batch samples n_(w) different users in total, for the k-th user (k=1, . . . , n_(w)), a real signature X_(a) ^(k) is sampled as the anchor point, the other n_(g) real signatures {X_(g,i) ^(k), i=1, . . . , n_(g)} as the positive sample, and n_(ƒ) random forged signatures or skilled forged signatures {X_(ƒ,j) ^(k), i=1, . . . , n_(ƒ)} as the negative sample. Therefore, for each user, there are n_(g)×n_(ƒ) triples. The soft dynamic time warping distance described in step 4.1 is integrated into the triplet loss function of the k-th user, and is calculated as follows:

$\begin{matrix} {L_{k} = \frac{{\sum}_{i = 1}^{n_{g}}{\sum_{j = 1}^{n_{f}}{ReL{U\left( {{d_{train}\left( {X_{a}^{k},X_{g,i}^{k}} \right)} + \text{ }\xi - {d_{train}\left( {X_{a}^{k},X_{f,j}^{k}} \right)}} \right)}}}}{1 + {{\sum}_{i = 1}^{n_{g}}{\sum}_{j = 1}^{n_{f}}{\prod\left\{ {{ReL{U\left( {{d_{train}\left( {X_{a}^{k},X_{g,i}^{k}} \right)} + \text{ }\xi - {d_{train}\left( {X_{a}^{k},X_{f,j}^{k}} \right)}} \right)}} > 0} \right\}}}}} & (13) \end{matrix}$

-   -   where ξ is a non-negative interval parameter. An overall loss         function for training the

neural network is:

$\begin{matrix} {L = {\frac{1}{n_{w}}{\sum}_{k = 1}^{n_{w}}\left( {L_{k} + {\frac{\lambda}{n_{g}}{\sum}_{i = 1}^{n_{g}}{d_{train}\left( {X_{a}^{k},X_{g,i}^{k}} \right)}}} \right)}} & (14) \end{matrix}$

-   -   where the second term represents an intra-class difference of         the real signatures, and its strength is controlled by a         parameter λ.

Step 3.3, the neural network is trained by optimizing the loss function calculated in the step 3.2, and a random gradient descent optimizer is used, each training iteration is 20 times, an initial learning rate is set to 0.01, and the learning rate of each iteration is attenuated by an index of 0.9. The number of sampled users n_(w) is 4, the number of real signatures n_(g) is 5, and the number of forged signatures n_(ƒ) is 10, including 5 skilled forged signatures and 5 random forged signatures. ξ of the formula (13) is set to 1.0, and λ of the formula (14) is set to 0.9.

In this embodiment, the signature sequence features in the signature sequence feature testing module are tested in following ways:

-   -   for the signature sequence to be authenticated and the template         signature sequence of a claimed identity in the signature         sequence feature verification model, after data acquisition and         data preprocessing, the neural network trained in the signature         sequence feature extraction neural network module is used for         extracting features, and the dynamic time warping distance         between the signature sequence features is calculated to judge         authenticity, including the following steps:     -   step 4.1, the signature sequence to be authenticated and the         template signature sequence of the claimed identity are         processed by the data preprocessing module; and     -   step 4.2, the neural network trained in the signature sequence         feature extraction neural network module is used for extracting         features, and the following distance between signature sequence         features based on dynamic time warping is calculated:

$\begin{matrix} {{d_{test}\left( {X,Y} \right)} = \frac{{dtw}\left( {{f(X)},{f(Y)}} \right)}{{❘{f(X)}❘} + {❘{f(Y)}❘}}} & (15) \end{matrix}$

Where dtw(X, Y) is the dynamic time warping distance between two sequences,

which is calculated as follows:

$\begin{matrix} {{{dtw}\left( {X,Y} \right)} = {\underset{A\epsilon\mathcal{A}_{l,m}}{\min}\left\langle {A,{\Delta\left( {X,Y} \right)}} \right\rangle}} & (16) \end{matrix}$

-   -   d_(test)(X, Y) is compared with the preset threshold, and the         authentication result is obtained.

The accurate authentication result of online signature is shown in FIG. 2 .

Embodiment 2:

As shown in FIG. 3 , an online signature authentication method based on soft dynamic time warping specifically includes the following steps:

-   -   step 1, acquiring the signature sequence to be tested;     -   step 2, preprocessing the signature sequence, acquiring the         preprocessed data and extracting the time functions of the         signature sequence; the time functions of the signature sequence         include: the horizontal speed v_(x) and the vertical speed         v_(y), the angle θ and functions cos(θ) and sin(θ) thereof, the         pressure p, the first difference {dot over (v)} of the speed v         and the first difference {dot over (θ)} of the angle θ, the         logarithmic curvature radius ρ, the centripetal acceleration c         and the total acceleration α.

step 3, constructing the neural network and training the neural network based on the time functions of the signature sequence to obtain the signature sequence feature extraction neural network; the neural network consists of the one-dimensional convolution layers, the circulation layers and the fully connected layer, the ReLU activation function is used after each convolution layer, and the maximum pooling layer is inserted between the convolution layers.

The circulation layer is composed of gated autoregressive units, and the specific mechanism is as follows,

an input at a time point t is i_(t) and an output is o_(t), and the gated autoregressive units update their outputs as follows:

r _(t)=sigmoid(W _(r) ×i _(t) +U _(r) ×o _(t−1) +b _(r))   (17)

o _(t)=tanh(W _(o) ×i _(t) +U _(o)×(r _(t) ⊙o _(t−1))+b _(o))   (18)

-   -   where r_(t) represents a reset gate, W_(r), U_(r), W_(o), and         U_(o) are parameter matrix, b_(r) and b_(o) are bias terms, and         the gated autoregressive units only adopt the reset gate r_(t),         and remove an update gate.     -   step 4, based on the preprocessed data and through the signature         sequence feature extraction neural network, judging the         authenticity by calculating the dynamic time warping distance         between the signature sequence features.

Compared with the existing deep signature authentication method based on dynamic time warping, the application has the following advantages:

The application introduces the differentiable soft dynamic time warping distance, so that the neural network may be trained end to end, thus learning more effective signature representation;

In the training stage, the soft dynamic time warping distance is used, and multiple paths are comprehensively considered, so the neural network may have better loss during training; in the testing stage, dynamic time is used to regulate the distance and give a clear optimal path. This strategy may effectively improve the performance of signature authentication;

The method of the application has high authentication precision, strong adaptability to handwriting pen input, finger input, skilled forgery scene and random forgery scene, and good generalization performance to open set data;

The method may be applied to other online handwriting analysis tasks, such as writer identification based on online handwritten letters and identity authentication based on online handwritten numbers.

The above-mentioned embodiment is only a description of the preferred mode of this application, not a limitation on the scope of this application. Without departing from the design spirit of this application, various modifications and improvements made by ordinary technicians in this field to the technical scheme of this application shall fall within the protection scope determined by the claims of this application. 

What is claimed is:
 1. An online signature authentication system based on soft dynamic time warping, comprising, a data acquisition module, a data preprocessing module, a signature sequence feature extraction neural network module and a signature sequence feature testing module; wherein the data acquisition module is used for acquiring a signature sequence to be tested; the data preprocessing module is used for preprocessing the signature sequence, acquiring preprocessed data and extracting time functions of the signature sequence; the signature sequence feature extraction neural network module is used for constructing a neural network and training the neural network based on the time functions of the signature sequence to obtain a signature sequence feature extraction neural network; and a signature sequence feature verification model is used for judging an authenticity by calculating a dynamic time warping distance between features of the signature sequence based on the preprocessed data and through the signature sequence feature extraction neural network.
 2. The online signature authentication system based on soft dynamic time warping according to claim 1, wherein the time functions of the signature sequence in the data preprocessing module comprise: an horizontal speed v_(x) and a vertical speed v_(y), an angle θ and functions cos(θ) and sin(θ) thereof, a pressure p, a first difference {dot over (v)} of a speed v and a first difference {dot over (θ)} of the angle θ, a logarithmic curvature radius ρ, a centripetal acceleration c and a total acceleration α.
 3. The online signature authentication system based on soft dynamic time warping according to claim 1, wherein the neural network in the signature sequence feature extraction neural network module comprises one-dimensional convolution layers, circulation layers and a fully connected layer; a rectified linear unit (ReLU) activation function is used after each convolution layer, and a maximum pooling layer is inserted between the convolution layers.
 4. The online signature authentication system based on soft dynamic time warping according to claim 3, wherein the circulation layer in the signature sequence feature extraction neural network module comprises gated autoregressive units, and an input at a time point t is i_(t) and an output is o_(t), and the gated autoregressive units update their outputs as follows: r _(t)=sigmoid(W _(r) ×i _(t) +U _(r) ×o _(t−1) +b _(r)) o _(t)=tanh(W _(o) ×i _(t) +U _(o)×(r _(t) ⊙o _(t−1))+b _(o)) wherein r_(t) represents a reset gate, W_(r), U_(r), W_(o), and U_(o) are parameter matrix, b_(r) and b_(o) are bias terms, and the gated autoregressive units only adopt the reset gate r_(t).
 5. The online signature authentication system based on soft dynamic time warping according to claim 1, wherein a method for training the neural network in the signature sequence feature extraction neural network module comprises: calculating a soft dynamic time warping distance of a signature pair, and making X=[x₁, x₂, . . . , x_(l)]ϵ

^(d×l) and Y=[y₁, y₂, . . . , y_(l)]ϵ

^(d×m) as two signature sequences with a length l and a length m respectively, x_(i) and y_(i) as local feature vectors of a dimension d, and a loss matrix between column vectors of sequences X and Y as Δ(X, Y)ϵ

^(l×m), wherein [Δ(X, Y)]_(i,j)=∥x_(i)−y_(i)∥₂ ²;

_(l,m)⊂{0,1}^(l×m) is defined as a set of feasible binary alignment matrices, Aϵ

_(l,m) is a binary alignment matrix, which satisfies a boundary condition [A]_(1×1)=[A]_(l×m)=1 and is monotonic and incremental, and the soft dynamic time warping distance of a signature sequence pair X and Y is: dtw_(γ)(X, Y)=min^(γ){

A, Δ(X, Y)

, Aϵ

_(l,m)}; where

A, Δ(X, Y)

represents an inner product of A and Δ(X, Y), min^(γ) is a generalized operator min with smoothing parameters defined as follows: ${\min^{\gamma}a_{1}},\ldots,{a_{n} = \left\{ {\begin{matrix} {\min_{{i = 1},\ldots,n}a_{i}} \\ {{- \gamma}\log{\sum}_{i = 1}^{n}e^{{- a_{i}}/\gamma}} \end{matrix};} \right.}$ assuming the neural network as a function ƒ(·), for the signature sequence pair X and Y, a following distance based on the soft dynamic time warping is used in a training stage: ${{d_{train}\left( {X,Y} \right)} = \frac{{dtw}_{\gamma}\left( {{f(X)},{f(Y)}} \right)}{{❘{f(X)}❘} + {❘{f(Y)}❘}}};$ where |·| represents the length of the signature sequence, the soft dynamic time warping distance of the signature pair is integrated into a triplet loss function, and the neural network is trained based on the triplet loss function.
 6. The online signature authentication system based on soft dynamic time warping according to claim 1, wherein in the signature sequence feature verification model, a method for calculating the dynamic time warping distance between the signature sequence features to judge the authenticity comprises: extracting features based on the preprocessed data and the obtained neural network; calculating the distance between signature sequence features based on dynamic time warping, ${{d_{test}\left( {X,Y} \right)} = \frac{{dtw}\left( {{f(X)},{f(Y)}} \right)}{{❘{f(X)}❘} + {❘{f(Y)}❘}}};$ wherein dtw(X, Y) is the dynamic time warping distance between two sequences calculated as follows: ${{{dtw}\left( {X,Y} \right)} = {\underset{A\epsilon\mathcal{A}_{l,m}}{\min}\left\langle {A,{\Delta\left( {X,Y} \right)}} \right\rangle}};$ and comparing d_(test)(X, Y) with a preset threshold to obtain an authentication result.
 7. An online signature authentication method based on soft dynamic time warping, comprising, acquiring a signature sequence to be tested; preprocessing the signature sequence, acquiring preprocessed data and extracting time functions of the signature sequence; constructing a neural network and training the neural network based on the time functions of the signature sequence to obtain a signature sequence feature extraction neural network; and judging an authenticity by calculating a dynamic time warping distance between features of the signature sequence based on the preprocessed data and through the signature sequence feature extraction neural network.
 8. The online signature authentication method based on soft dynamic time warping according to claim 7, wherein the time functions of the signature sequence comprise: a horizontal speed v_(x) and a vertical speed v_(y), an angle θ and functions cos(θ) and sin(θ) thereof, a pressure p, a first difference {dot over (v)} of the speed v and a first difference {dot over (θ)} of the angle θ, a logarithmic curvature radius ρ, a centripetal acceleration c and a total acceleration α.
 9. The online signature authentication method based on soft dynamic time warping according to claim 7, wherein the neural network in the signature sequence feature extraction neural network module comprises one-dimensional convolution layers, circulation layers and a fully connected layer, an ReLU activation function is used after each convolution layer, and a maximum pooling layer is inserted between the convolution layers.
 10. The online signature authentication method based on soft dynamic time warping according to claim 9, wherein the circulation layer in the signature sequence feature extraction neural network module comprises gated autoregressive units, a specific mechanism is as follows, an input at a time point t is i_(t) and an output is o_(t), and the gated autoregressive units update outputs as follows: r _(t)=sigmoid(W _(r) ×i _(t) +U _(r) ×o _(t−1) +b _(r)) o _(t)=tanh(W _(o) ×i _(t) +U _(o)×(r _(t) ⊙o _(t−1))+b _(o)) wherein r_(t) represents a reset gate, W_(r), U_(r), W_(o), and U_(o) are parameter matrix, b_(r) and b_(o) are bias terms, and the gated autoregressive units only adopt the reset gate r_(t), and remove an update gate. 